All the things it’s worthwhile to find out about our UEFA Ladies’s Champions League quarter-final opponents Chelsea.
We have been drawn in opposition to the defending Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League champions in Friday’s draw from Nyon.
Arsenal are additionally within the ultimate eight, that means it is the primary time a nation has ever had three groups at this stage of the competitors.
The quarter-final ties shall be performed on 18/19 March and the 26/27 March, with precise fixture dates to be confirmed sooner or later.
Right here we’ll study a bit of extra about our quarter-final opponents…
Champions League historical past
Chelsea are not any strangers to this stage of the competitors, having made the ultimate eight in six of the final eight editions of the event.
Regardless of all of their home success lately, they’re but to win the competitors nonetheless.
Their finest efficiency got here in 2020/21, after they made the ultimate however have been overwhelmed by Barcelona on Gothenburg.
Barcelona have been additionally their downfall final season, however on the semi-final stage.
Chelsea received all six video games within the group stage, scoring 19 instances and conceding simply six.
They confronted Actual Madrid, FC Twente and Celtic at that stage.
Sonia Bompastor’s crew are additionally unbeaten within the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League, sitting prime of the desk with 37 factors from 13 video games.
Bompastor took over final summer season after Emma Hayes’ lengthy, profitable reign got here to an finish together with her transfer to the US nationwide crew.
A midfielder as a participant, she performed 156 instances for France between 2000 and 2013.
After retiring, she coached in Lyon’s academy till 2021 – when she was promoted to the Head Coach function.
After three seasons within the scorching seat at France’s most profitable membership, she moved to the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League.
Metropolis and Chelsea have by no means met within the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League.
The 2 sides have performed as soon as on this season’s Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League, with Chelsea rising 2-0 victors.